DISGRACEFUL – AT 12:31 P.M. ET:  Considering his slick style, it's easy to forget that Barack Obama is a Chicago machine politician who slings mud with the worst of them.  There is plenty to criticize in Donald Trump, but Obama goes over the top.  He was interviewed by one of his CNN sycophants, Fareed Zakeria.  From the Daily Mail: 

President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday that American voters will say 'no' to Donald Trump in the November election, in part because of anti-immigrant sentiments that recall a 19th Century nativist political party nicknamed the 'Know Nothings.'

Trump has embraced a hard-line policy against illegal immigration but has said he favors the legal entry of immigrants with job skills needed in U.S. industry.

Still, Obama blasted the Republican presidential nominee for promoting 'intolerance' and government policies 'that are contrary to our values, banning certain classes of people because of who they are or what they look like, what faith they practice.'

'We have to be pretty hard about saying no to that,' the president said. 'And I think that America will do that this time as well.'

Trump last year advocated a total ban on Muslims entering the United States, in reaction to a series of deadly Islamist terror attacks around the world.

Since then he has amended that proposal to focus on nation-specific immigration bans on terror-rife countries where it's impossible to vet incoming people.

Zakaria is among the most strident anti-Trump political hosts on cable television. During one broadcast last month he branded the GOP nominee 'a bulls*** artist' on live TV.

He asked Obama about 'the support that Donald Trump has' and 'where it comes from,' referring to white middle-class Americans 'who seem to have the most suspicion about you.'

Obama replied that there's a historical trend in America of citizens becoming less enthusiastic about new immigration the longer they are in the United States.

COMMENT:  Obama is really wormy.  At one time his comments would have been called "McCarthyism," questioning the patriotism, or, in this case, the decency, of anyone who disagrees.  But in the loving hands of Fareed Zakaria, Obama is untouched, unchallenged. 

He's also unemployed.  Four months and a few weeks from now, he's out.  Finally.

September 4, 2016